Apache Quickstep (Incubating)

Quickstep is a high performance database engine. We currently support a SQL interface with plans to support advanced machine learning operations.

Quickstep’s design starts with an underlying relational kernel core. The key design philosophy is to ensure that these kernels - and compositions of these kernels - can exploit the full potential of the underlying hardware. We call this design principle running at bare-metal speed. Bare-metal means to fully exploit the latest hardware trends including large main memories, fast on-die CPU caches, highly parallel multi-core CPUs, and NVRAM storage technologies.

For the hardware available in the future, we aim to co-design hardware and software primitives that will allow the data processing kernels to work on increasing amounts of data economically - both from the raw performance perspective, and from the perspective of the energy consumed by the data processing kernels and the applications running on the platform.

Getting Started

Quickstep is easy to get set up. It currently runs on a single node and supports a SQL front-end, and doesn’t require tuning parameters. To get started, follow the quickstart guide.

Community

Quickstep is an Apache (incubating) project. If you want to learn more about the community, follow the dev conversation at dev@quickstep.incubator.apache.org. Send a blank email to this address for subscribe instructions. You can also view the mail archive.

Roadmap

The current roadmap is to produce a platform that can run relational database applications using SQL as the interface. The longer-term roadmap is to cover a broader class of analytics.

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Apache Quickstep (Incubating)

Quickstep is a next-generation data processing platform designed for high-performance analytical queries.

Disclaimer

Apache Quickstep is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.